Bonds well with celluloid

We had a marvelous evening last night (thanks for babysitting, Mom!) watching Daniel Craig bounce over a construction site in Madagascar, demolish a Venician historic house, wreck yet another Bond car, have his gonads pulverised while make witty quips and and generally portray an excellent Bond. John and I are both fans of the books,…

Craft Fair Recap, part 2 (the display)

If you were thinking I had a table at a little flea market affair, you’ll need to adjust your vision a tad. This fair (held by the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador) allocates booth space and bases the fees on a combination of on square footage, shape and location. Here’s the schedule of fees…

Craft Fair Recap, part 1 (the product)

I’m not quite sure how many parts this will turn out to be, but “one” seems like an appropriate place from which to start. The 33rd Annual Fine Craft and Design Fair was this past weekend. It’s a juried fair, which means that your product has to have passed certain standards of quality for you…

New toy

Much of my smaller work involves cutting squares, rectangles and strips of fabric, some of which is attached to stabiliser and some of which is not. I also produce my own tags, business cards and custom-fold and trim my brochures. Doing those things by hand, with a rotary cutter and straight edge is not difficult,…